15 of the hardest words to spell in the English language

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Onomatopoeia

Like a punchy use of onomatopoeia – a technique where a word mimics a sound – in a comic book, this one speaks for itself. Between the eight vowels, the fact that you only really need half the letters that are there to make the “-pia” sound that the word ends with, or the fact that replacing the “t” with an “n,” and saying “onomanopoeia,” rolls off the tongue slightly better, this is easily one of English’s trickiest offerings.